(a.) Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.
(a.) Not called for by the circumstances; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that uric acid is the only effective physiological inducer, while its 2 and 8 thio-analogues serve as gratuitous inducers.
(2) It is proposed that the ability of P. putida to tolerate the unusually high degree of possible gratuitous induction observed for camphor catabolism may be related to the infrequent occurrence of bicyclic ring structures in nature.
(3) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
(4) Induction of ethanolamine ammonia-lyase formation in Escherichia coli required both the ethanolamine and vitamin B12, and was gratuitous during growth on glycerol.
(5) There was a sense of it being gratuitously anti-science from someone whose locus in the debate wasn't clear.
(6) First, galactose repression of beta-galactosidase synthesis was markedly enhanced in bacteria tested subsequent to gratuitous induction of the galactose-degrading enzymes with d-fucose.
(7) L-Malate was the only physiological inducer and bromosuccinate was a gratuitous inducer of dicarboxylic acid transport in a succinic dehydrogenase deficient mutant.
(8) Induction of penicillinase (beta-lactamase) in Bacillus licheniformis 749 by 2-(2'-carboxyphenyl)-benzoyl-6-aminopenicillanic acid (CBAP) was examined, since this compound was reported to be a gratuitous inducer of penicillinase in Staphylococcus aureus.
(9) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(10) This budget isn't just going to be random pain, gratuitous pain, pain for the hell of it, sharp pain, stabbing pain ... it's pain – with a purpose.
(11) The authors predict a further rapid spreading of this infection in this risk group and postulated gratuitous providing of addicts with dispensable syringes and needles and condoms, and providing systematic intensive training of the personnel of dehabituation treatment institutions as well as extensive informational education of the addicts.
(12) Will the Australian government investigate whether it happened?” Abbott: “Well, we have very good relations with the Indonesian government and we’ve got very good cooperation with the Indonesian government when it comes to stopping people smuggling because, amongst other things, we haven’t offered the gratuitous insult to Indonesia that our predecessors did by, amongst other things, stopping the live cattle trade in panic at a television program.” Mitchell: “Prime Minister, will the Australian government investigate whether it happened?” Abbott: “Um, Neil, what we are doing is saving life at sea.
(13) Another person went to the gym at lunch time and couldn’t get out ... One member doesn’t have the right to revoke the pass of another member’s staff.” Chris Bryant, the former shadow leader of the House of Commons, said it was a terrible way to treat staff members, branding it petty and “vindictive, gratuitous nastiness”.
(14) In the absence of any known role for the products of the ilvGMEDA operon when repressing levels of branched-chain amino acids are present, there appears to be only a gratuitous role for the transcription at ilvEp.
(15) In half of the cases, combination of tissue signs of obstructive and calcificating pancreatitis were observed, so it is considered gratuitous to separate sharply the two forms of chronic pancreatitis.
(16) This compound also serves as gratuitous inducer of the catabolic acetylornithine aminotransferase.
(17) Their specific submission to Leveson lauded only "free speech that does no gratuitous harm".
(18) How can he live with himself after imposing such gratuitous pain upon the people of this nation?
(19) If you want to see how they turned out, pop over to Twitter where I am will posting gratuitous dough shots at @jnraeside .
(20) So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus."
Groundless
Definition:
(a.) Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) China's foreign ministry has dismissed speculation that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden might have spied for Beijing as "completely groundless".
(2) At psychiatric consultation it became apparent that each man had a mental disorder, one symptom of which was an excessive and groundless concern that he suffered from AIDS.
(3) However, his claim about the absence of the effect of stabilization of Z-DNA at low salt proves to be groundless, and the criticism of our earlier approach seems to be irrelevant.
(4) Serial interviews with 39 patients undergoing radical radiotherapy to the oral cavity revealed that misunderstandings and groundless fears about this form of treatment were widespread.
(5) The patients' reports about their experience of anxiety show that concrete and groundless anxiety are felt as equally unpleasant.
(6) In an interview last week with the Jerusalem Post, the Israeli prime minister rejected accusations of interference in the election, saying they were "completely groundless".
(7) "In particular, do not destroy the goodwill and anticipation the public has for the new office holders after the 18th party congress by limiting and persecuting an ordinary citizen's normal freedom of speech in such a groundless fashion."
(8) KCNA quoted the foreign ministry as saying: “As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident.
(9) As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
(10) The report made wild guesses, and was groundless and with ulterior motives,” the spokesperson said, adding that China’s stance was “clear”.
(11) Chen said the authorities' threat of prosecution against his wife was groundless and the harassment was part of continued efforts by local authorities to punish Chen Guangcheng for his continued activism overseas by targeting his relatives.
(12) The French finance minister Pierre Moscovici called the report an "absurd and groundless" exercise in "French bashing" while prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault accused the Economist of sensationalism.
(13) This fight may have sharpened the opposition, but it expanded the range of support for transgender equality.” 'Bathroom predator' spin on Houston equal rights bill puts Texans in hot seat Read more The pro-Hero campaign relied on logic and reasonableness, which as a strategy turned out to be no match for a stark yet spurious slogan from opponents: “No men in women’s bathrooms.” This line, peddled endlessly and rooted in groundless suspicion of transgender people, sought to scare voters into believing that because of the reference to gender identity, a broad civil rights bill was in essence a license for sexual predators to attack women in bathrooms.
(14) The author states that the insurers' fears are groundless but suggests that psychiatrists research the utilization and costs of their treatments in insurance plans collaboratively with the actuaries who determine policy and premiums.
(15) To enhance the effectiveness of the immunoprophylaxis of measles and its influence on the epidemic process, a number of problems must be solved with the aim to improve the quality of the vaccine, especially its thermal stability, to establish the possibility of shifting the beginning of immunization from 15-17 months to 12 months of age, to increase the coverage of children with immunization against measles by decreasing the number of groundless exemptions from immunization and by immunizing children in risk groups according to individual schedules and dosage, to carry out selectively the booster immunization of persons who have lost their postvaccinal immunity, as revealed by laboratory test, or in whom such loss may be supposed, to introduce the objective method (indirect hemagglutination test) for controlling the state of immunity among different groups of the population into laboratory practice at sanitary and epidemiological stations.
(16) There is no harm in exploring the truth about racism when all moral, scientific, social, historical and genetic evidence demonstrates it to be groundless and ridiculous.
(17) Protecting humans from the real hazards and allaying groundless fears requires a self-consistent body of scientific data concerning effects of the fields, levels of exposures which cause those effects, and which effects are deleterious (or beneficial or neutral).
(18) "It is regrettable that the Venezuelan government has again decided to expel US diplomatic officials based on groundless allegations, which require reciprocal action.
(19) The state KCNA news agency added that claims North Korea had conducted the attack on Sony in revenge for the controversial comedy The Interview , a multimillion-dollar comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen that depicts the assassination of Kim Jong-un, were “groundless slander”.
(20) A thorough and well-organized medical chart can prevent malpractice from occurring, discourages the filing of groundless lawsuits, and is a useful tool in defending a physician in a medical malpractice action.